topic booting in another vpar in Operating System - HP-UX

booting in another vpar

sarfaraj ahmad — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:22:57 GMT

Hi Gurus,

i have 2 vpar in one partition.one is currently down and another is running.
Now i want to stop running vpar and boot the system into vpar which is currently down.

current status is
# model
9000/800/SD32A
#
# uname -a
HP-UX unirat B.11.11 U 9000/800 976386816 unlimited-user license
#
Partitions available:

# Name
--- ----
0) Partition 0
1) Partition 1
2) Partition 2
3) Partition 3
4) Partition 4
Q) Quit

Please select partition number: 1

Connecting to Console: Partition 1
(Use ^B to return to main menu.)

- - - - - - - - - - Prior Console Output - - - - - - - - - -

iucdb (down)
unirat (up)

Available Free Memory: 4096 MB

Available MEM RANGE: 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff (131072 Kb)
Available MEM RANGE: 0x000000000c000000-0x0000000203ffffff (8257536 Kb)
MON>

kindly suggest how to go ahead.

Re: booting in another vpar

Torsten. — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:39:07 GMT

Run

MON> vparload -p iucdb

Re: booting in another vpar

sarfaraj ahmad — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:46:57 GMT

sorry torsen i put my question wrong.

actually i want to boot current running vpar into Npar mode and again i have to be boot the system into current vpar.

kindly suggest.

Re: booting in another vpar

Torsten. — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:59:10 GMT

Note the bootpath (from vparstatus), shut down all vPars, reset the system, stop at BCH, boot from the path (see above), interact with ISL and boot vmunix directly:

ISL> hpux /stand/vmunix

Re: booting in another vpar

sujit kumar singh — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:53:23 GMT

Hello
Sarfraj,

to be more clear please note that NPAR mode and VPAR mode are 2 different terms applicable to the Integrity SDs. You are having a PARISC SD.
For IA SDs you shall get in the model string as ia superdome ....

In case you wish booting the other VPAR from the MON simply do as suggested in earlier post as

MON> vparload

In case you want to boot the VPMON from the other VPAR and then boot that VPAR, Make sure that you have the boot path information of the other VPAR that is down right now and that the Boot path of that VPAR has got ability to boot the VPMON.

choose from the ISL the Boot path of the other VPAR and once in ISL of that boot path

ISL> boot /stand/vpmon

with the MON booted

MON> vparload

In case you want to boot the other VPAR in standalone mode, shutdown the current VPAR, reboot the NPAR, in BCH do a "search", locate the boot path of the second VPAR.

BCH MAin MEnu> boot

Interact with ISL ;; yes

once in ISL,

ISL>boot /stand/vmunix.

the changing of mode that is VPAR-NPAR or NPAR-VPAR is applicable in case of Integrity SDs wherein you have to set the mode earlier using the command
#vparenv -m vPars OR
#vparenv -m nPars

as the mode you wish booting the system.

regards
sujit

Re: booting in another vpar

sujit kumar singh — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:56:14 GMT

hi

please correct the syntax from
MON> vparload

TO

MON> vparload -p

as written in the earlier post.

regards
sujit

Re: booting in another vpar

sarfaraj ahmad — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:37:26 GMT

Hi All,
same way i had completed my activity successfully. i was forgot to assign the points, so same has been done now & closing the thread.

Thanks.